Engineers board plants 5,000 trees at Ngong Hills

The Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) and engineering stakeholders on Saturday planted 5,000 trees at Kona Baridi in Ngong Hills.

Speaking during the event, EBK Registrar Eng. Margaret Ogai said the initiative is part of a move to supports the government's Greening Kenya Agenda.

She said it is aimed at planting at least 200,000 trees to bolster the conservation of the Ngong Hills Forest reserve.

“We are thankful as all these trees planted will bolster conservation efforts of the Ngong Hills Forest reserve. The Board presently has a target of planting 200,000 trees in line with the Government’s Greening Kenya Agenda,” Ogai said.  

The tree planting was part of activities ahead of the 6th Engineering Partnerships (EPC) Convention 2025.

The 6th EPC 2025 will be held at the Edge Convention Centre in Nairobi from May 7 to May 9, 2025.

The convention will bring together over 1,000 professional engineers including delegates and policymakers from Africa and beyond.

Over 100 engineering companies working in Kenya are expected to participate.

According to the Chairman of the Board, Eng Erastus Mwongera, the convention will among other things re-examine how engineers in Kenya and their global counterparts can play greater role in the digitisation economic production.

He stated this also aligns with the Bottom Up Economic Agenda.

“The Theme of 6th EPC 2025 is “Engineering a Digital World”. Engineers are convening for the whole week this coming week to re-examine how engineers in Kenya and their global counterparts can play greater role in the digitization our economic production as a nation, central to the Bottom Up Economic Agenda of the Kenya Kwanza administration,” Mwongera said.

EBK chief executive, Ogai further mentioned that a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes, which will see Kenyan Engineers have expanded increased opportunities by way of export, once they join the Washington accord.

“We have worked very hard as a regulator with the Graduate Engineers Internship (GEIP) Program, other programs of the Board to raise the number of professional engineers in Kenya to over 10,000 as per UNESCO recommended ratio of 1 Engineer to 5,000 people. We have strengthened accreditation with engineering schools in the country and look forward to export Kenyan Engineering talent to the world this year in June when Kenya officially joins the Washington accord, thereby expanding employment opportunities for our graduates globally,” Ogai added.